Additional Eye Testing for PRK/LASIK

[choppereng]

If you received PRK or LASIK eye surgery, the Army flight physical (and maybe the Navy's?) requires a "Low-Contrast Sensitivity Test", aka that backlit eye chart you're supposed to read from just because you had PRK/LASIK. If you fail that test, are you hosed? The Army Aeromed Policy I was able to find lists some alternative tests that can be submitted instead:

- VisTech Contrast Grating Test

- Functional Acuity Contrast Test (F.A.C.T.)

- Pelli-Robinson Contrast Sensitivity Test

- Bailey-Lovie 10% low contrast acuity test

- ETDRS low contrast acuity chart (5% is preferred)

- Mentor BVAT low contrast acuity chart (set on 5%)

 

Anyone fail the regular test and end up having more luck with one of the above? That test has always been hard for me and I'm wondering what my situation would be if I failed it at some point.

 

Thanks!